When investigating types of digital tools to use to create word clouds, there are several options available. The first one that I sampled was http://www.tagxedo.com/. I used one WWI letter that was 12 pages long as the text data. This letter was written from one brother to another. These two brothers apparently worked in the ship yards in New York City. This is the word cloud that was produced from this tagxedo site.
The bigger the word, the more frequently this word appeared in the letter. What can be gathered from this word cloud, created on the tagxedo site, is that James Carrick talked to his brother Joe about everyday things. Not many words reflect army life. The word 'Mother' is one of the bigger words, along with 'good,' 'things,' 'glad,' and also the word 'Joe.'
http://www.wordle.net/create is another word cloud program. The word cloud created reflected much of the same frequently words, but could not be saved as a jpeg file. This one is a simple program that allows you to print the word cloud and save it to a public site but you can't create a picture of the final product to save digitally.
The last word cloud program that is available is http://voyant-tools.org/. This program will be the program that I will use for the rest of research into several sets of WWI letter collections.
http://www.wordle.net/create is another word cloud program. The word cloud created reflected much of the same frequently words, but could not be saved as a jpeg file. This one is a simple program that allows you to print the word cloud and save it to a public site but you can't create a picture of the final product to save digitally.
The last word cloud program that is available is http://voyant-tools.org/. This program will be the program that I will use for the rest of research into several sets of WWI letter collections.